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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2009
In writing his article, Mr. Klein clearly intended his particular evidence about the influence of different religions to be taken as a proof of general conclusions which would explain the different characteristics of Negro slavery in different parts of the Americas. Quite early, he suggests that his aim is to assess previous comparative studies of American slavery empirically “by subjecting to detailed analysis the slave systems of two colonial powers in the New World … through detailing the operation of one crucial aspect of the slave system, the relationship between infidel Negro and Christian Church, in two highly representative colonies, those of Cuba and Virginia” (p. 295).
1 Peytraud, L., L'Esdavage aux Antilles Françaises avant 1789 (Paris 1897), pp. 193–94Google Scholar.
2 The present writer has already pointed to the significance of these contrasts and resemblances in two earlier articles: Goveia, E. V., “Influence of Religion in the West Indies” in History of Religion in the New World (Washington D.C., 1958), pp. 174–80Google Scholar, and “The West Indian Slave Laws of the Eighteenth Century” in Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Vol. IV, No. 1 (March 1960), pp. 75–105Google Scholar.
3 The point is well made in Ortiz’ early work on Cuban slavery, Las Negros Esclavos (Havana, 1916)Google Scholar, and recurs in his later classical study of Cuban economic development, Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (Eng. ed., N.Y., 1947)Google Scholar.